"Look here!

Because of Eryi's lowering of his head, Senior Sister Li Li didn't notice Eryi's abnormality.

Instead, she pointed at the fragments of the pottery dish with great interest, telling Er Yi about the "words" she had found.

Because he had just had his soul out of his body and his mind was in turmoil, he knew that this was not the time to study the gluttonous beast face.

After calming down for a while, he focused his attention on the fragments of the pottery plate, and Er Yi only knew at a glance that Senior Sister Li Li's so-called "words" were actually just patterns and symbols that imitated the spirit pattern.

But he couldn't say that directly, so he simply put the pottery dish together and repaired it again.

"This pottery dish was found in the deepest part of the Panlong Ancient Cave, under the stone wall of the mural, and along with it were several other pieces of pottery. ”

Senior Sister Li Li explained while staring at Eryi's quick patchwork of pottery plates: "Professor Xu believes that these pottery vessels are used to place sacrifices when the ancients sacrificed. ”

Although I have seen it many times, every time I look at it, I still feel that the action of Eryi is pleasing to the eye, just like a fast and accurate, high-efficiency assembly line robot.

According to the analysis of the situation of the sacrificial pit in the Panlong Ancient Cave, the ancient merchants of Panlong should still retain the custom of living sacrifice. ”

"At the end of every foreign war, the tribe drives enemy captives and jumps off the 'sacrificial well', where you and Markey fall. ”

"For those who die in battle, the remains of their own soldiers will be gathered together for burial, which is consistent with the situation of Pit No. 4, which was discovered a long time ago. ”

"However, the body of a leader-level warrior will be decomposed by the sorcerer in the tribe, that is, the 'witch' who is responsible for the sacrifice, and the internal organs and limbs and torsos will be packed with ritual vessels before being sent to the Panlong Ancient Cave for burial. ”

"This kind of decomposition of the remains is relatively rare in our Huang country, but it is very similar to the Mayan living sacrifice culture and ancient Nile mummy culture, and it seems that only the Samsung and Jinsha cultures have found similar situations in China, but they have never been found to be so intact. ”

Senior Sister Li Li frowned and explained, "So it's not so hard to be sure if it's the same kind of sacrificial behavior......

Her words made Eryi's subordinates pause, and their expressions were a little weird: "Are you saying that these plates and jars are not used to hold fruits or the like, but to hold human organs and internal organs?"

"Ceremonial vessels were originally intended for sacrificial purposes, and anything could be contained. ”

Senior Sister Li Li shrugged: "This pottery dish is preliminarily judged to be used to hold people's heads." ”

Eryi sweated and took a plate to pretend to be a human head, what kind of habit is this?

And after unloading eight pieces of his own people, put his head in a saucer, and put his hands and feet in a jar?

But it's been thousands of years, and except for the ones that feel weird psychologically, it's not so responsive.

Eryi quickly finished the pottery dish and carefully observed the lines on it.

It was found that as Senior Sister Li Li said, this thing is the one with the most graphic symbols with similar characters among the utensils found in the Panlong Cultural Site.

In addition to the patterns of various flowers, birds, fish and insects, there are also birds, snakes, four-legged beasts and human figures distributed on the four sides of the pottery plate, which is exactly the same as the pattern on the sacrificial well!

"The bird is in the south, the serpent is in the east, the four-legged beast is in the west, and the man is in the north. ”

"Could this be the so-called Eastern Green Dragon, Western White Tiger, Southern Vermilion Bird, and Northern ...... Shouldn't the north be Xuanwu?"

Eryi carefully moved the tray, moving the direction of the symbol to the same direction as the sacrificial well, and said a little puzzled: "Why is it a person?"

"At that time, there should not have been the concept of the so-called 'four gods'. ”

Senior Sister Li Li smiled and said, "So I suspect that this is a hieroglyphic script that is older than the oracle bone inscription. ”

"It can't be regarded as a 'text', but only a 'picture'. ”

"Isn't there a large number of murals found in the Panlong Ancient Cave, and it's a way of recording information like a comic book, like 'lacquer painting', so I think we should consider it from the direction of 'looking at the picture and talking'. ”

"For example, if this 'bird' has a 'he' pattern around it, and a 'river' pattern near the 'he' pattern, it means that 'there are crops growing by the river in the south, and birds will come to eat them'. And the 'four-legged beast' has 'bow' patterns and 'wood' patterns around it, does this mean that 'there are beasts in the western forest that can be hunted'?"

After thinking about it for a while, Er Yi decided to euphemistically explain his understanding of the spirit pattern to Senior Sister Li Li, pointing to the symbols on the pottery plate and saying, "Or 'There are fierce beasts in the woods in the west, it is very dangerous, you have to bring weapons to go' or something like that?"

"How do you explain that there are four 'Sichuan' patterns next to the 'snake' in the east?"

Eryi's statement aroused the interest of Senior Sister Li Li: "There are four rivers around the snake?"

"Well, that's not what the four rivers mean, right?"

"Aren't the four rivers around them fenced?

Er Yi was also a little puzzled, slowly turned the tray, tilted his head and looked at it for a long time before surmising: "Does it mean that there is water everywhere next to the snake? Or is there a place in the east where there is water everywhere There are snakes?"

"What about the people of the north?"

"There are people in the north, does it mean that there is a tribe or city in the north that lives in it?"

"Or does it mean that the Panlong ancients migrated from the north, so the mother family is in the north?"

Senior Sister Li Li probably understood Eryi's train of thought, and as soon as the words came out, she said in unison with Eryi: "Yinxu in the north?"

The more they thought about it, the more they felt that it seemed to make sense, and the two excitedly guessed the patterns on the pottery plate, and finally came to the conclusion: What kind of text is this? This is a map!

"Wait!"

"There are snakes in the East...... Where is our current location to the east?"

Er Yi thought in a flash of inspiration: "I mean, to the east of the location of the Panlong Cultural Site, where is there a lot of water?"

"Where there's a lot of water?"

"Chu County has many lakes since ancient times, and it is also known as 'Qianhu County', and there are more places with water. ”

"Besides, thousands of years of geographical changes, who knows at that time, where there was water and where there was no water?"

Li Li didn't understand what Er Yi meant, and said puzzledly: "If you analyze it according to the current geographical environment, wouldn't it be a boat to ask for a sword?"

"No!"

Er Yi said excitedly: "There is a place in our Chu County that has no water now, but there was a lot of water in ancient times!"

"There were many water ...... in ancient times"

Being reminded by Er Yiyi, Li Li also reacted, and involuntarily widened her eyes and exclaimed, "Yun Mengze?"